Quotes About Knowledge

Yo solo sé que no sé nada.

Ik weet één ding, dat ik niets weet

Y dime, ¿es posible ser orgulloso cuando no se sabe nada, Lisis?

We gain our first measure of intelligence when we first admit our own ignorance.

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing. - Socrates

Surely this is the objectionable kind of ignorance, to think one knows what one does not know? But in this, gentlemen, here also perhaps I am different from the general run of mankind, and if I should claim to be wiser than someone in something it would be in this, that as I do not know well enough about what happens in the house of Hades, so I do not think I know.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "No puedo enseñar nada a nadie. Solo puedo hacerles pensar" (Sócrates)

YAH (2022)? Ik weet één ding, dat ik niets weet

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "La verdadera Sabiduría está en reconocer la propia ignorancia" (Sócrates)

Puede muy bien suceder, que ni él ni yo sepamos nada de lo que es bello y de lo que es bueno; pero hay esta diferencia, que él cree saberlo aunque no sepa nada, y yo, no sabiendo nada, creo no saber. Me parece, pues, que en esto yo, aunque poco más, era más sabio, porque no creía saber lo que no sabía

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing

You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise.

Rely on the message of the teacher, not on his personality; Rely

ego, then, is the absence of true knowledge of who we really are, together with its result: a doomed clutching on, at all costs, to a cobbled together and makeshift image of ourselves, an inevitably chameleon charlatan self that keeps changing and has to, to keep alive the fiction of its existence.

discover and develop, naturally and spontaneously, a compassionate desire to serve all beings, as well as a direct knowledge of how best you can do so, with whatever skill or ability you have, in whatever circumstances you find yourself.

If you are too clever, you could miss the point entirely.

the truth of the teaching which is all-important, and never the personality of the teacher.

Así pues, el ego es la carencia de un verdadero conocimiento sobre quiénes somos en realidad, junto con su consecuencia: el inexorable aferramiento, que está condenado al fracaso, a una imagen de nosotros mismos improvisada y hecha de remiendos, un yo inevitablemente camaleónico y charlatán que no cesa de cambiar constantemente para mantener viva la ficción de su existencia.

The outer teacher introduces you directly to the truth of your inner teacher.

The "inner science" of Buddhism is based, as one American scholar puts it, "on a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of reality, on an already assessed, depth understanding of self and environment; that is to say, on the complete enlightenment of the Buddha.

Practice had given my master a complete knowledge of what death is, and a precise technology for guiding individuals through it.

In Tibetan we call it Rigpa, a primordial, pure, pristine awareness that is at once intelligent, cognizant, radiant, and always awake. It could be said to be the knowledge of knowledge itself.3

the only truly serious goals in life are "learning to love other people and acquiring knowledge.